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Article: Hoover, Hearst & Citizen Welles: when the F.B.I. planned to round up the usual suspects, guess wo made the list?(J. Edgar Hoover; William Randolph Hearst; Orson Welles; Federal Bureau of Investigation)
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- The Nation
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- May 27, 1996
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Orson Welles was many things to many people. To almost everyone, he was a brilliant writer and director, probably the United States' most extraordinary filmmaker. To gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, he was a "would-be genius." To right-wing press baron William Randolph Hearst, he was vicious and irresponsible.
To J. Edgar Hoover, Welles was something else: a communist dangerous enough to be on the F.B.I.'s "Security Index," its official list of people to be rounded up for preventive detention in the event of a "national security emergency." The recommendation that Welles be put on the index, dated November 1944, appears in his F.B.I. file, a copy of which was obtained ...
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